Demographics – 320 people! 320
people in attendance with an average of 20.7 years as CPAs! Business Industry Corporate! NonProﬁt! Government! Public Practice Audit! Public Practice Tax! Consulting CFO Advisory! Public Practice Financial Planning! Other!

Are you Future Ready?! Future
Ready is the capacity to be aware, predictive, and adaptive of emerging challenges, tech innovations, and trends and changes in business, population, and social environment.!

What does this mean for
Young Professionals? 11 Things Young Professionals Want You to Know 1. More collaboration. 2. More transparency. 3. Encourage initiative. 4. Focus on strengths. 5. Expect the unexpected. 6. Take time to save time. 7. Look beyond the billable hour. 8. Engage your team in your vision. 9. Be realistic. 10. Train your staff and expect accountability. 11. Take a financial risk on leadership.

Legislative Advocacy “From then on,
they are no longer isolated men, but a power one sees from afar, whose actions serve as an example; a power that speaks, and to which one listens.” – Alexis de Tocqueville, on the power of Associations in Democracy in America

How we did it 1.
Build and maintain Key Relationships with legislators and regulators (PAC, meetings and events) 2. Grassroots capabilities through membership - we can target specific legislators by committee and district 3. Financial support of key legislators via our PAC 4. High profile events that increase visibility of CPA Profession (CPA Day for legislators and Swearing-in for DLLR/State Board)

We identiﬁed three major goals
for making this shift:! 1. Help employees identify and address the challenges and opportunities that have the greatest imp 2. Help employees strengthen high-impact connections by enabling them to collaborate easily with o 3. Amplify the impact of those efforts by building an infrastructure that allows small improvements to

“In a period of rapid
change and increasing complexity, the winners are going to be the people who can LEARN faster than the rate of CHANGE and faster than their COMPETITION.” - Tom Hood, CPA.CITP.CGMA

92% of CPAs are! NOT
Future Ready!! Future Ready is the capacity to be aware, predictive, and adaptive of emerging challenges, tech innovations, and trends and changes in business, population, and social environment.! Source: CPA.COM 2014 CPA of the Future Study!